Merz wants five percent for rearmament: Discontent in the SPD - | will the coalition break up?

We will probably (...) not manage with the current volunteer system alone, but will need additional elements of compulsory military service.

— Friedrich Merz, Chancellor, at the Industry Day in Berlin.

We are doing everything to be able to defend ourselves.

— Boris Pistorius, Federal Minister of Defense, discusses Germany's readiness for defense in the context of the upcoming NATO summit.

The compulsory military service is a response from the past and no solution for the future.

— Philipp Türmer, head of the Jusos, comments on the compulsory military service debate in Handelsblatt.

We are enabling a modernization boost.

— A government member commented on the new debts and their impact on the economy.

This can initially be no good news, as it shows and proves that the world's peace order is currently under pressure everywhere.— Boris Pistorius comments on the US bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities during the ZDF program Caren Miosga.

This sum underscores the importance of a solid, reliable, and generationally equitable financing of the pension insurance.

— Jens Dirk Wohlfeil, Co-CEO of the German Pension Insurance, discusses the financial situation of pension insurance in the context of the 'pension at 63'.

There will be no return to the old conscription, where all young men of a generation are drafted.

— Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil comments on the debate about conscription.

Mister Trump, the player, you may start this war, but we will end it.

— A spokesperson for the Iranian Army Central Command, responding to the US attacks.

As Finance Minister, I sometimes make decisions that are relevant to the capital market or have information about individual listed companies.

— Christian Lindner, former Finance Minister, spoke about the conflicts of interest that can arise from political decisions.

Wherever the foot of a Russian soldier stands, that place belongs to us.

— Wladimir Putin stated this during his speech at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg.

I expect that our text will be read and not caricatured.

— Ralf Stegner, one of the authors of the 'Manifest', expresses his expectations regarding how the Manifest should be perceived within the SPD.

Running a summit in these circumstances is 'like preparing the red carpet for Godzilla,' one Canadian official told the Financial Times.— A Canadian official made this remark to the Financial Times.

I have decided to present the report to the Budget Committee of the Bundestag in the coming session week.

— Nina Warken, Minister of Health, in an interview with the 'Rheinische Post'.

The principle 'Who orders, pays' must be applied consistently.— André Berghegger, Managing Director of the German Association of Cities and Municipalities, in the Rheinische Post.